adminCommunal farmers top tobacco growing
Agriculture ReporterCommunal farmers are topping the list of registered tobacco growers for the 2012/13 cropping season. Of the 54 482 registered tobacco growers, 21 400 are from the communal sector while 9 837 are new growers. Latest statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board show that communal
President to distribute farming inputs
Hebert Zharare Political Editor
President Mugabe is today expe-cted to distribute farming inputs to farmers countrywide
Lack of zeal hampers ethanol project’s revival
Tichaona Zindoga Herald Reporter
Implementation of the roadmap to revive the Chisumbanje Ethanol Project
Commando regiment marks 31st anniversary
Herald ReporterThe Commando regiment, one of Zimbabwe’s special operations forces, has been praised for defending the country’s interests as well as ensuring peace in the Sadc region. Commando regiment commander Colonel Steven Gwekwerere saluted the force at celebrations to mark its 31st anniversary
Mujuru calls for total empowerment
Herald ReportersEMPOWERMENT of the majority of Zimbabweans calls for concerted effort from all sectors of the economy, Vice President Joice Mujuru has said.
Speaking at the Mupfure Self Help College graduation and prize giving day in Chegutu yesterday, VP Mujuru said all economic sectors should work
Complex politics: When the Media follows
Are our politicians prisoners of an uninformed, ignorant yet overbearing media? Or are they playing political games with and through a pliant media? I raise these questions in relation to the whole debate around the Inclusive Government and all those processes which Government was mandated to see through, principally the constitution-making process.
Let us play back to the early days of negotiations, which led to the creation of the Inclusive Government. The media thrust was to write against the formation of the Inclusive Government. The MDC formations, so ran editorials, should resist partnering Zanu-PF lest they are swallowed, lest democracy would be distorted through partnership. The country could burn for the sake of the concept of democracy.
Israel ‘admits’ killing Arafat’s deputy
Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a 1988 seaborne raid in Tunisia.The operation was planned by the Mossad spy agency…
Police smash cigarette smuggling ring
Mashudu Netsianda
POLICE in Beitbridge have smashed what appears to be a well-organised smuggling syndicate when they raided a local businessman’s homestead in Tshapfutshe village and recovered more than 1 000 boxes of an assortment of export quality cigarettes worth R3,1million.
The consignment was hidden inside five huts, which were being used as warehouses to store the cigarettes haul while waiting to be smuggled into South Africa through undesignated entry points along the Limpopo River.
The officer commanding police in Beitbridge District, Chief Superintendent Lawrence Chinhengo, confirmed the incident, saying they found 1 081 boxes of different cigarette brands hidden at Mr Edzisani Muleya’s homestead following a tip-off.
Jilted Africa cool to US vote after Obama fever fades
KOGELO, Kenya/JOHANNESBURG — In the tiny Kenyan village of Kogelo, US President Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland, some people talk of hurt feelings of the kind experienced when a favourite relative has failed to get in touch.
Speaker blasts Biti for undermining Parly
Harare Bureau